The Age of Absolutism

What does Absolute Ruler mean?

• a ruler who is sure of their power
• A ruler who is involved in all aspects of government and public life
• someone who has to answer to a separate government body
• a ruler who is absolute

What was the event that started the 30 years war

• Charles V leaving his throne in Spain
• The defeat of the Spanish Armada
• The Defenestration of Prague 
• The English Civil War

As Spain's absolute ruler, what as Philip II's goal?

• To defeat the English at all costs
• To take control over all of Europe
• To advance the Golden Age of Spain
• To advance Spanish Catholic power

What is divine right?

• The right to rule was given to the monarch by God
• a Birth right
• soldiers for hire
• a monarch for hire

Who were the German Princes who chose the Holy Roman Empire?

• Huguenots
• Dissenters
• Electors
• intendants

English protestants who differed with the Church were:

• Cabinet
• Partition
• Dissenters
• Boyers

What did the Edict of Nantes help to ensure?

• That France and Spain would not unite
• that Germans could choose their own religion
• that French Catholics would not be persecuted
• That French Protestants would not be persecuted

What Happened when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nates and the Huguenots left?

• the army was weakened
• the French economy was weakened
• the power base of Henry IV was destroyed
• the French bureaucracy was damaged

Huguenots  is a ..

• Spanish Catholic
• A French Catholic
• an English Protestant
• a French Protestant

what was the major cause of conflict within the empire of Charles V (Spain/Holy Roman Empire)? 

• Charles suppressed Protestantism in the German States
• Charles fought his brother in a series of religious wars
• Saxon invaded France and tried to occupy Paris
• Ottoman forces overran much of Southern France